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I love this, you couldn't make it up.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZI9ZC-oL5K...rwell-sign.jpg

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You can't make this stuff up!

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Dont get it, am I uncultured?

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Look up George Orwell

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No just thick :wink:

(i dont get either)

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Now is that ironic, idiotic or hypocritical?

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shut it you

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Please tell me that is your idea of a joke!

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Nah i honestly dont get it

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Brilliant!

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No, it is just James... sad, but, true...

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Stop bullying me :cry:

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If you don't want it known, don't post it!

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Well said!

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I googled George Orwell and ended up on wiki. Fell asleep about 3 sentences in, I'l do it tomorrow ;)

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Holdup -George Orwell wrote 1984,which includes,among other famous ironic sayings, 'big brother is watching you'.
Therefore having a CCTV sign (watchingyou)next to George Orwell Street makes the juxtaposition slightly amusing.

It's probabaly got more to do with the time he spent in Spain during their Civil War and the chronicles he wrote about his experiences. But that spoils the irony a bit ;)

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Messie

Thank you very much for explaining to me :kiss:

At least some ones kind enough unlike others i could mention :rolleyes:

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Irony...

Dude, what a wimp out...

Spoil-sport! lol

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Great stuff(The OP and the responses)
By coincidence I have sitting on the table in front of me an old copy of 1984,very motheaten and one or two pages missing.
Its an absolute must read especially for the younger generation who are growing up with no knowledge of the freedoms we all took for granted.

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Remember I am in agony from my CBT, have sympathy :( I even had to go to work afterwards to try and catch up on stuff that happened whilst I was out popping wheelies.

Im going to bed, screw you :(

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That is also funny for reasons you also wont understand :)

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Wut

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Stop confusing the newbies SK

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Brillant find I love it! I think even more some since the the new government intend to reduce CCTV:rolleyes: like that will ever happen!

Oh watch the moive V if you don't get it, there are "shout towers" in place as I type...

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:thumbsup:

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Love it.

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Google 1984 George Orwell.

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Its all doublethink to me
Im off to room 101 to rewrite a bit of out of date history

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We are great at teaching English literature in schools nowadays aren't we :rolleyes:

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What he said.

A good book, and a timely warning of the power of the state over the individual - let it never be even partly true.

See also: Animal Farm.

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I'd love to do a bit of an experiment on the forum, where every participant over the age of 30 has to pose a question from their days at secondary school, on a piece of literature, a grammatical principal, a mathematical principal, a basic bit of geography, a basic phrase in a modern foreign language, etc, etc, to generate a general knowledge questionnaire that any secondary school leaver should be able complete. Then see how well the under 20's do in that questionnaire compared to the over 30's. I can't see how you'd achieve it without getting answers off google though.

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Interesting idea - I think we all consider that education standards have fallen, but might it perhaps be that the emphasis has changed?

I'm not sure I think that's true - but it must be given consideration.

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You'll just get grammar nazi's such as me asking the difference between there, their, and they're :p

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Or where to put the dreaded apostrophe, but it's all valid stuff for secondary school leavers.

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I can't remember any of the answers or the questions. I was appalled though that 4 out of the 5 voices on radio 1 the other morning didn't know how to work out the volume of a cube.

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Ok, I give up. How do you work it out?

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Labour education for you....all they teach people to do is how to fill in benefit forms. Adult education extended to how to claim asylum. The only English lessons were for non-speakers. The only thing you know how to work the volume of is and iPod. Education was a way of keeping people off the unemployed lists.

Grrrrr

RALPH Re. your last post....I could help you out with a few. Perhaps you could also do another questionaire where the "kiddies" ask the questions...i.e. how can you tweet from a mobile.

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I thought everyone had to read 1984. Well when I went to school we did as it was on the O level English Literature reading list.

Quite amusing. I would have thought even the Spaniards would have seen the irony

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Good thing that I didn't have a mouthful of coffee when I read that. :D

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Ironic indeed.